Ardashir "Ardu" Vakil is an Indian-born British author whose first novel, Beach Boy, won the Betty Trask Award in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award.
[1] His second novel, One Day was shortlisted for the Encore Award.
Born in 1962 in Bombay and educated at The Doon School,[2] and University of Cambridge,[3] he has lived in London since 1997 with his wife and two children.
[4] He teaches Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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